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Yiddish
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بقال (bakkal), from Arabic بَقَّال (baqqāl). Compare Ladino bakkal, Russian бакале́я (bakaléja). The sense "dried fruit" derives from Polish bakalie.
Pronunciation
Noun
באַקאַליי • (bakaley) f
- (collective) groceries
- dried fruit
Derived terms
References
Schaechter-Viswanath, Gitl; Glasser, Paul (2016), “באַקאַליי”, in Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press